stoffel@casc.com (John Stoffel) writes, inter alia,
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Now I know I could use snapmirror to make this migration painless, but that would mean that I'd have to dedicate two 36gb disks on my F740 to the root volume, and then make a second volume with the remaining disks, leaving one spare of course. So I'm losing capacity, but I'm starting to think that this is the way to go, if only to keep my sanity.
But you haven't lost the 2 36GB disks for ever! Once you make the switch to the F740 being master rather than slave, you can make the main volume the root, (reboot), delete the old root, (reboot unless at 6.0), and add the now-spare disks to the main volume.
Switching roots requires a little care with /etc contents, of course, but it's not really that painful.
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